"Anastasia" Is Coming to Broadway And The First Images Are Breathtaking

The Internet has been rallying for a live-action remake of Twentieth Century Fox's Anastasia for ages. After all, the vivid costumes, whimsical music, and epic tale of love, loss, and revenge is just begging to be brought to life.

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And while a movie is still only a pipe dream, there is a musical version of the beloved 1997 film coming to Broadway in April 2017, and the first images look appropriately stunning.

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The musical will be moving to Broadway after completely a sold-out, record-breaking world premiere at the Hartford Stage in Connecticut. It will reunite the Tony Award-winning writers of the Broadway classic Ragtime: book writer Terrence McNally, composer Stephen Flaherty, and lyricist Lynn Ahrens. It will be directed by Darko Tresnjak, Tony Award winner for Best Direction of a Musical for A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, and choreographed by Peggy Hickey.

It will include beloved songs from the film, including Ahrens and Flaherty's Oscar-nominated "Journey to the Past," as well as an entirely new score.

Here's Christy Altomare as our sweet and spunky orphan princess Anya.

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And Derek Klena as cavalier hunk and all-around ragamuffin Dmitry.

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John Bolton will play charmingly rotund Vlad Popov and Caroline O'Connor will take on the role of Countess Lily Malevsky-Malevitch.

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Anastasia: The Musical will open at the Broadhurst Theater on Broadway on April 24, 2017. Tickets go on sale this fall, so start saving up for tix to NYC now!